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Alexander Bird – Publications

All papers are listed below with links to publishers’ websites or to pdfs. For details of citations see: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8PytVRIAAAAJ

Books

• Knowing Science Oxford: (forthcoming).

• Nature’s : Laws and Properties Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007) (231pp). Reviewed by Helen Beebee Times Literary Supplement 5511 (14 November 2008) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Beebee_review_TLS.pdf John Carroll Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13333 Anjan Chakravartty Metascience 18 (2009) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Chakravartty_Metascience.pdf Stefan Storrie Review of Metaphysics 63 (2009) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Storrie_Review_of_Metaphysics.pdf Marc Lange Philosophical Review 119 (2010) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Lange_Phil_Review.pdf Simon Bostock Philosophy 85 (2010) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Bostock_Philosophy.pdf Barbara Vetter Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse 12 (2009) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Vetter_Logical_Analysis.pdf Peter Menzies (Critical Notice) Analysis Reviews 69 (2009) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Menzies_Analysis.pdf Max Kistler Mind 119 (2010) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Kistler_Mind.pdf Gerhard Schurz Erkenntnis 74 (2011) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Schurz_Erkenntnis.pdf Lauren Ashwell Protosociology (2012) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Ashwell_ProtoSociology.pdf

Chesham: Acumen Press; Princeton: Princeton University Press (2000) (308pp). (Spanish edition Thomas Kuhn Madrid: Tecnos (2002) trans. Carmen Garcia Trevijano.) Reviewed by Francis Remedios Philosophy in Review 22 (2001) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Remedios_Phil-in-Review.pdf Edward Rothstein New York Times (21 July 2001) and La Nacion (25 August 2001) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Rothstein_NYTimes.html James Robert Brown Brit. J. Phil. Science 53 (2002) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Brown_BJPS.pdf Howard Sankey Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2002) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Sankey_PQ.pdf William Lynch Isis 93 (2002) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Lynch_Isis.pdf Steve Fuller Metascience 11 (2002) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Fuller_Metascience.pdf Samuel Doble-Gutierrez Laguna: Revista de Filosofia 13 (2003) http://rlaguna.webs.ull.es/numero13.htm Rupert Read International Studies in Philosophy 35 (2004) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Direct_to_Read_ISPhil.html

London: Routledge; Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (1998) (313pp). (Also translated into Chinese.) Reviewed by Brit. J. Phil. Science 50 (1999) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Lipton_review.pdf Eduardo Flichman Revista Patagonica de Filosofia 1 (1999) http://www.bariloche.com.ar/filosofia/rpfa1v1.htm Michael Ashooh International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (2000) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Ashooh_ISPS.pdf Mind 109 (2000) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/reviews/Mumford_Mind.pdf

Edited books

• Arguing About Science edited with 10 original co-authored essays by James Ladyman and Alexander Bird. Abingdon: Routledge (2012) (795pp). Reviewed by Angelo Cei Science and Education 23 (2014) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11191-014-9687-9#page-1 Giacomo Borbone Philosophy in Review 34 (2014) http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/13160

• Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the metaphysics of realism edited by Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey. New York: Routledge (2011) (270pp) ). Reviewed by Cristian Soto Metascience 21 (2012) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11016-012-9723-9 László Kocsis Philosophy in Review 34 (2014) http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/view/13217/4162

Journal

I was editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, with James Ladyman (09/2004–08/2011).

Journal special/guest editions

• Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 38 (2017) special issue on , co-edited with Jeremy Simon and Havi Carel. • Synthese 149 (2006) special edition on metaphysics in science, co-edited with Johannes Persson, with co-authored introduction. • Theoria 51 (2004) edition on dispositions, causes, and propensities in science, guest edited with Mauricio Suárez.

!2 Articles forthcoming

• “Understanding the Replication Crisis as a Base Rate Fallacy” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axy051). Advance article: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy051

Journal articles published (peer-reviewed except where marked †)

[108] “Comprendiendo los Paradigmas de Kuhn a la Luz de la Ciencia Cognitiva” (Understanding Kuhn’s Par- adigms in the Light of Cognitive Science) Cuadernos de Filosofía 20 (2020) 161–75 (doi: 10.29393/CF38-7ABCP10007). † https://doi.org/10.29393/CF38-7ABCP10007 [104] “Possibility and the Analysis of Dispositions” Philosophical Inquiries 8 (2020) (doi: 110.4454/philinq.v8i1.276). https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v8i1.276 [102] “Against Creativity” (with Alison Hills) Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (2019) 694–713 (doi:10.1111/phpr.12511). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phpr.12511 [101] “Internalism, Externalism, and the KK Principle” (with Richard Pettigrew) Erkenntnis (2019) (doi:10.1007/s10670-019-00178-3). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-019-00178-3 [100] “The Aim of Belief and the Aim of Science” Theoria 34 (2019) 171–93 (doi: 10.1387/theoria.19351). https://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/19351/18928 [99] “Systematicity, Knowledge, and Bias. How systematicity made clinical medicine a science” Synthese 196 (2019) 863–79 (doi: 10.1007/s11229-017-1342-y). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1342-y [98] “James Jurin and the Avoidance of Bias in Collecting and Assessing Evidence on the Effects of Vario- lation” JLL Bulletin: Commentaries on the History of Treatment Evaluation (2018) http://tiny.cc/fkgj6y And in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 112 (2019) 119–23 (doi: 10.1177/0141076819833289). https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076819833289 [95] “Fundamental Powers, Evolved Powers, and Mental Powers” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (2018), 247–75. (doi: 10.1093/arisup/aky006). † https://doi.org/10.1093/arisup/aky006 [94] “Evidence and Inference” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96 (2018) 299–317 (doi:10.1111/phpr.12311). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phpr.12311/full [93] “The Metaphysics of Natural Kinds” Synthese 195 (2018) 1397–426 (doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0833-y). http://rdcu.be/IEmD [88] “Overpowering: How the powers ontology has overreached itself” Mind 125 (2016) 341–83 (doi: 10.1093/mind/fzv207). http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/498/341 [87] “Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Research Evaluations” (Marcus Munafò, Thomas Pfeiffer, Adam Altmejd, Emma Heikensten, Johan Almenberg, Alexander Bird, Yiling Chen, Brad Wilson, Magnus Jo- hannesson, and Anna Dreber) Royal Society Open Science 2 (2015) (doi: 10.1098/rsos.150287). http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/10/150287

!3 [83] “Free Inquiry: The Haldane Principle and the Significance of Scientific Research” (with James Lady- man) Social Review and Reply Collective 2 (2013) 14–22. † http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-Of [81] “La filosofía de la historia de la ciencia de Thomas Kuhn” Discusiones Filosóficas 13 (“Thomas Kuhn’s Philosophy of the History of Science”, transl. Juan Carlos Aguirre-Garcia) (2012) 167–85. † http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/difil/v13n21/v13n21a10.pdf [79] “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Significance” British Journal for the Philosophy of Sci- ence 63 (2012) 859–83 (doi: 10.1093/bjps/axs031). http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/4/859 [78] “What Can Cognitive Science Tell Us About Scientific Revolutions?” Theoria 27 (2012) 293–321 (doi: 10.1387/theoria.6391). http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/6391 [77] “Referring to Natural Kind Thingamajigs, and What They Are: A Reply to Needham” International Stud- ies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (2012) 103–9 (doi: 10.1080/02698595.2012.653111). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02698595.2012.653111 [75] “What Can Philosophy Tell Us About Evidence-Based Medicine?” International Journal of Person-Cen- tered Medicine 1 (2011) 642–8 (doi: 10.5750/ijpcm.v1i4.137). http://www.ijpcm.org/index.php/IJPCM/article/view/137 [74] “The Epistemological Function of Hill’s Criteria” Preventive Medicine 53 (2011) 242–5 (doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.07.009). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743511002738 [72] “What are Natural Kinds?” (with Katherine Hawley) Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2011) 205–21 (doi: 10.1111/j.1520-8583.2011.00212.x). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2011.00212.x/abstract [65] “Eliminative Abduction—Examples from Medicine” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 41 (2010) 345–52. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368110000646 [64] “Social Knowing” Philosophical Perspectives 24 (2010) 23–56. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1520-8583.2010.00184.x/abstract [63] “The Epistemology of Science—A Bird’s-Eye View” Synthese 175 (2010) 5–16. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-010-9740-4#page-1 [61] “A Posteriori Knowledge of Natural Kind Essences: A Defense” Philosophical Topics 35 (2010) 293–312. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43154507 [53] “Lowe on A Posteriori Essentialism” Analysis 68 (2008) 336–44. http://analysis.oxfordjournals.org/content/68/4/336.short [52] “Remarks on Our Knowledge of Modal Facts” Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift 43 (2008) 54–60. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Knowledge_of_Modal_Facts.pdf [51] “Dispositions, Rules, and Finks” (with Toby Handfield) Philosophical Studies 140 (2008) 285–98. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-007-9148-2#page-1 [50] “Scientific Progress as Accumulation of Knowledge—A Reply to Rowbottom” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39 (2008) 279–81. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368108000332 [49] “The Epistemological Argument Against Lewis’s Regularity View of Laws” Philosophical Studies 138 (2008) 73–89. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-006-0010-8#page-1 [58] “. . . And Then Again, He Might Not Be” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009) 517–21. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048400902941356

!4 [46] “The Regress of Pure Powers?” Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) 513–34 (winner of the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize ’06). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.507.x/abstract [44] “Inference to the Only Explanation” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 424–32. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00028.x/abstract [42] “What is Scientific Progress?” Noûs 41 (2007) 64–89. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2007.00638.x/abstract [40] “Justified Judging” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007) 81–110. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00004.x/abstract [38] “Looking for Laws” Metascience 15 (2006) 441–54. † http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11016-006-9043-z#page-5 [37] “Potency and Modality” Synthese 149 (2006) 447–52. (Translated as “Capacité et modalité” Études de Philosophie 9-10 (2011) 66–85.) † http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-005-0574-4#page-1 [35] “Unexpected A Posteriori Necessary Laws of Nature” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 83 (2005) 533–48. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048400500338799 [34] “Laws and Essences” Ratio 18 (2005) 437–61. (Reprinted in Alice Drewery (ed.) Metaphysics in Sci- ence Oxford: Blackwell (2006) 63–87.) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2005.00304.x/abstract [33] “The Dispositionalist Conception of Laws” Foundations of Science 10 (2005) 353–70. (Translated as “Die dispositionalistische Auffassung von Gesetzen” in Dispositionen Texte aus der zeitgenössischen Debatte eds Barbara Vetter and Stephan Schmid Suhrkamp: Berlin 2014.) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10699-004-5259-9#page-1 [32] “Explanation and Metaphysics” Synthese 143 (2005) 89–107. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11229-005-3115-2#page-1 [31] “Naturalizing Kuhn” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (2005) 109–27. † http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0066-7373.2004.00104.x/abstract [30] “The Ultimate Argument Against Armstrong’s Contingent Necessitation View of Laws” Analysis 65 (2005) 147–55. http://analysis.oxfordjournals.org/content/65/2/147.extract [29] “Antidotes All the Way Down?” Theoria 51 (2004) 259–69. (Translated as “Antidotes: pas moyen d’y échapper?” Études de Philosophie 9-10 (2011) 86–102.) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Antidotes_ATWD.pdf [27] “Strong Necessitarianism: the Nomological of Possible Worlds” Ratio 17 (2004) 256–76. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0034-0006.2004.00253.x/abstract [26] “Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Positivist Legacy” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) 337–56. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368104000184 [25] “Kuhn and Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science” Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12 (2004) 1–14. (Chinese transl.: Philosophical Analysis 17 (2016): 44–55.) http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Kuhn_20thC_PoS.pdf [24] “Kuhn on Reference and Essence” Philosophia Scientiae 8 (2004) 39–71. † http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Direct_to_Kuhn_Ref_Ess.html [23] “Is Evidence Non–Inferential?” Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004) 253–65. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00350.x/abstract [22] “Kuhn, Nominalism, and Empiricism” Philosophy of Science 70 (2003) 690–719. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/378860 !5 [21] “Three Conservative Kuhns” Social Epistemology 17 (2003) 125–31. † http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0269172032000144054 [20] “Nozick’s Fourth Condition” Facta Philosophica 5 (2003) 141–51. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Nozick's_fourth_condition.pdf [19] “Resemblance Nominalism and Counterparts” Analysis 63 (2003) 221–8. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8284.00426/abstract [15] “Laws and Criteria” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (2002) 511–41. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00455091.2002.10716529 [14] “What is in a Paradigm?” Richmond Journal of Philosophy 2 (2002) 11–20. † http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Paradigm.pdf [13] “On Whether Some Laws are Necessary” Analysis 62 (2002) 257–70. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8284.00366/abstract [12] “Kuhn’s Wrong Turning” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 33 (2002) 443–63. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368102000286 [11] “Illocutionary Silencing” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2002) 1–15. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0114.00137/abstract [10] “Necessarily, Salt Dissolves in Water” Analysis 61 (2001) 267–74. (Translated as “Necessariamente o sal se dissolve na água” by Rodrigo Cid, in Argumentos 4 (2012) 250–56.) http://www.jstor.org/stable/3329004 [9] “Scepticism and Contrast Classes” Analysis 61 (2001) 97–107. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3329096 [7] “Further Antidotes: A Response to Gundersen” Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000) 229–33. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9213.00182/abstract [6] “Scientific Revolutions and Inference to the Best Explanation” Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 34 (1999) 25–42. † http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Revolutions_and_IBE.pdf [5] “Explanation and Laws” Synthese 120 (1999) 1–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20118526 [4] “Dispositions and Antidotes” Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1998) 227–34. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9213.00098/abstract [3] “The Logic in Logicism” Dialogue 36 (1997) 341–60. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Logic_in_Logicism.pdf [2] “Squaring the Circle: Hobbes on Philosophy and Geometry” J. History of Ideas 57 (1996) 217–31. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Squaring_the_Circle.html [1] “Rationality and the Structure of Self-Deception” in European Review of Philosophy 1 (1994) 19–38. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Rationality_Structure_Self-Deception.pdf

Articles published in collections

[107] “How Can Loveliness Be a Guide to Truth? Inference to the Best Explanation and Exemplars” in The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding (eds. Milena Ivanova and Steven French) Abingdon: Routledge (2020). http://www.alexanderbird.org/Research/How_can_loveliness_be_a_guide_to_truth.pdf [106] “Scientific Realism and Three Problems for Inference to the Best Explanation” in New Approaches to Scientific Realism (ed. Wencelao J. Gonzalez) Berlin: De Gruyter (2020). http://www.alexanderbird.org/Research/Scientific_Realism_and_Three_Problems_for_IBE.pdf

!6 [105] “A Dispositional Account of Causation” in Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (ed. Anne Sophie Meincke). Cham: Springer (2020). http://www.alexanderbird.org/Research/A_Dispositional_Account_of_Causation.pdf [103] “Group Belief and Knowledge” in The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, (eds. Miranda Fricker, Peter Graham, David Henderson, and Nikolaj Pedersen) Abingdon: Routledge (2019). http://www.alexanderbird.org/Research/Group_Belief.pdf [97] “Creativity Without Value” (with Alison Hills) in Creativity and Philosophy, (eds. Berys Gaut and Matthew Kieran) Abingdon: Routledge (2018) 95–107. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Creativity_Without_Value.pdf [96] “Inference to the Best Explanation, Bayesianism, and Knowledge” in Best Explanations, (eds. Kevin McCain and Ted Poston), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018) 97–120. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/IBE_Bayesianism_and_Knowledge.pdf [92] “Scientific Realism and Epistemology” in The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism (ed. Juha Saatsi) Abingdon: Routledge (2017) 419–33. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Realism_and_Epistemology.pdf [91] “Manifesting Space and Time: Background-free physical theories” in Causal Powers, (ed. Jonathan Jacobs) Oxford University Press (2017) 127–38. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Manifesting%20Space%20and%20Time.pdf [90] “Peano and Russell” in The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic, (eds. Alex Malpass and Mari- anna Antonutti Marfori) London: Bloomsbury (2017). http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Peano_and_Russell.pdf [89] “Scientific Progress” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, (ed. Paul Humphreys), Oxford: Oxford University Press (2016) 544–63. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Scientific_Progress_2_REV [86] “Kuhn and the Historiography of Science” in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50 Years On (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science) (eds Alisa Bokulich and William Devlin), Doredrecht: Springer (2015) 23–38. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Kuhn_Historiography_of_Science.pdf [85] “When is There a Group that Knows? Scientific Knowledge as Social Knowledge” in Essays in Collec- tive Epistemology, (ed. Jennifer Lackey) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014) 42–63. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/When_is_there_a_group_that_knows.pdf [84] “Time, Chance, and the Necessity of Everything” in Chance and Temporal Asymmetry, (ed. Alastair Wilson) Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014) 280–93. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Time_Chance_Necessity.pdf [82] “Limitations of Power” in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism (eds. John Greco and Ruth Groff) New York: Routledge (2013) 25–47. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Limitations_of_Power.pdf [80] “Kuhn, Naturalism, and the Social Study of Science” in Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited (eds. Vasso Kindi and Theodore Arabatzis) New York: Routledge (2012) 205–30. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Kuhn_Naturalism_Social_Study_of_Science.pdf [76] “Dispositional Expressions” Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language (eds Gillian Russell and Delia Graff Fara) New York: Routledge (2012) 729–40. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Dispositional_Expressions.pdf [73] “Monistic Dispositional Essentialism” in Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the metaphysics of realism (eds. Alexander Bird, Brian Ellis, and Howard Sankey) New York: Routledge (2011) 35–41. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plajb/research/papers/Monistic_Dispositional_Essentialism.pdf [71] “Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals” Topics in vol.8: Carving Na- ture at its Joints (eds Joseph Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Matthew Slater) Cambridge MA: MIT

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